Transvestite narratives in nineteenth and twentieth century Hispanic authors
Subtitle: using the voice of the opposite gender
By: Nicola M. Gilmour ; with a foreword by Alfredo Martinez Exposito.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780773450837
Subjects: Spanish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Spanish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Transvestism in literature; Gender identity in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The best of both worlds : transvestism, fetishism and perverse narrations; title: Strategies of oscillation : transvestite theories of art in Cristina Peri Rossi's Fantasias eroticas; title: Mothers, muses and male narrators : fetishism and metafiction in Peri Rossi's Solitario de amor; title: Turkish delight : oriental phallacies in Antonio Gala's La pasion turca; title: Phantoms of femininity : Emilia Pardo Bazan and the construction of woman and gender; title: Androgynous alternatives : Pardo Bazan's Dona Milagros and Memorias de un solteron; title: "Rascally dualities" : Pardo Bazan's concept of literary production and genre; title: A romantic confession : Genara de Baraona and Benito Perez Galdos.